Mechwart?FN:
said by the Doenhof FSL to be
fromUC Wuerzburg (no
locality mentioned). Later
spelled Marquardt.
MeckFN:
said by the GCRA to have come to Glueckstal,
origin unknown. See their book
for detail.
MeckendorfGL:
an unidentified place said by the Boregard
FSL to be homeUC to a Bleier?
family. I can find Mueckendorfs, Muckendorfs
and a Machkendorf, but no
Meckendorf.
Mecker?FN:
said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC
Dessau (no locality mentioned).
I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.
MeckerFN:
said by the Paulskaya FSL to be
an orphan boy in the Fau
household.
MecklenburgGS:
as is shown below, there were two independent Mecklenburg duchies in the
1760’s. I have found no way to
distinguish which one is referred to in the immediately following entries:
Said (no locality mentioned) by the Boregard
FSL to be homeUC to a Mannenger
family. Said (no locality
indicated) by the Stumpp supplement to the Dietel
FSL to be homeUC to Dam,
Herbst, and Vogt families.
Said (no locaility mentioned) by the Jost
FSL to be homeUC to a Schielberg
family. Said (no locality
mentioned) by the Katharinenstadt
FSL to be homeUC to a widow Muss,
as well as Westhausen and
possibly Grassmann families.
Said (no locality indicated) by the Kratzke
FSL to be homeUC to a Becker
family. Said (no locality
indicated) by the Merkel FSL to
be homeUC to a VonHolstein
family. Said (no locality
mentioned) by the Norka FSL to be
homeUC to Eberhard, Hoffman/Hoffmann and Lehl
families. Said (no locality
mentioned) by the Paulskaya FSL
to be homeUC to a Herr
family.
Mecklenburg-SchwerinGS:
was the larger of the two Mecklenburg duchies, with lands stretching from a
bit E of Luebeck city in a 60-mile-wide swath along the Baltic for some 75
miles, including the village of Mecklenburg and the city of Schwerin.
Said by the Boaro FSL to be homeUC to a Fer? family. Said (no locality mentioned) by the Boregard
FSL to be homeUC to the Jensen
families. Said (no locality
mentioned) by the Jost FSL to be
homeUC to Hoffmann and
Schmidt families. Said
by the Kratzke FSL to be homeUC
to a Burmeister family.
Mecklenburg-StrelitzGS: was the smaller of the two Mecklenburg
duchies, with lands around and between Neubrandenburg and Neustrelitz,
including the village of Strelitz. Said
by the Dobrinka FSL to be homeUC
to a Hahn family.
MedardGL,
Meisenheim, Rheinland-Pfalz: is some 3.5 miles SW of Meisenheim city, and proven by GCRA
to be home to the Amann family
that went to Bergstal and to Glueckstal They
also believe that this may be the ancestral homeUC of the Heyl/Veil
family that went to Glueckstal,
as well as of the Maurer/Mauerer
family that settled in Neudorf.
See the GCRA book for
more.
MedebachGL:
said by the Mariental FSL to be
homeUC to an Oberlieser
family. There is a Medebach some
33 miles WSW of Kassel city.
MedequeFN:
said by the Franzosen FSL to be
fromUC Derne?, Frankreich. I could not
find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.
MederFN:
said by the Holstein FSL to be
fromUC Langenstein,
Sachsen.
MederFN:
said by the Kamenka FSL to be
fromUC Aschaffenburg.
Medernach,
Luxembourg [Duchy] is 14
miles NNE of Luxembourg city, and
said by the Brabander FSL to be
homeUC to a Burhoven
family.
Medernas,
Luxembourg [Duchy]: an
unidentified place said by the Brabander
FSL to be homeUC to a Damplon
family. Most likely this was Medernach.
MediaschGL:
see Mednsch.
MedingerFN:
said by the 1816 Glueckstal
census (KS:671, 371) to be Beinstein, Waiblingen [Amt],
Wuerttemberg. Using FHL(1,056,989),
the GCRA verified this origin.
See the GCRA book for more
details.
Also spelled Moedinger.
Mednsch?GL,
[Siebenbuergen Principality]:
this was Mediasch, now Medias, Romania,
some 224 miles ENE of Novi Sad, Batschka,
and said by the Neidermonjou FSL
to be homeUC to an Engler
family. Kuhlberg said this was
in Siebenbuergen?.
Medvedickij
Krestovyj BuerakVV, is a Russian name for FrankVV.
Medveditzkoi
Krestovoi BuyerakVV, is a Russian name for FrankVV.
Medwedizki
Krestowoi BujerakVV, is a Russian name for FrankVV.
Meer?FN:
said by the Dobrinka FSL to be
fromUC Epping, Felzer(?).
MeerholzGL,
Isenburg-Meerholz County: the town was the seat of the County.
The town was just SW of Gelnhausen city and has long since been absorbed as a suburb or
neighberhood into Gelnhausen
city.
MegenGL, Holland: is 24 miles SSE of Amersfoort,
and said by the Katharinenstadt
FSL to be homeUC to a Alstfoerst
family.
Meggerdorf,
Holstein: is 28 miles W of Kiel
city. Gerhard Lang and Dona
Reeves Marquardt proved that the Schwin/Schwien
who later settled in Holstein near the Volga was here at least as early as
1763.
MehfelderFN:
said by the Leitsinger FSL to be
fromUC Pikotn?,
Bamberg [Bishopric].
I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.
MehlbachGL:
said by a Friedberg ML to be homeUC
to a Nicodemus woman who married
in 1766 a Wetter man; by 1767 the
couple was in Kukkus (Mai&Marquardt#348).
There is a Mehlbach some 33 miles W of Mannheim,
in the Rhineland-Palatinate.
MehlbergerFN{Michael}:
said (no locality mentioned) by the Degott
FSL to be fromUC Saulcet
dr. Allier, Lothringen.
I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.
MehlhafFN:
both the 1816 Kassel census (#79)
and KS:371 said this family came
fromUC Eppingen,
Sinsheim
[Amt], Baden. Using FHL#1,189,091-2,
the GCRA
verified this origin. See
their book for more.
MehlingFN:
said by the Walter FSL to be fromUC
Poleng, Durlach principality.
Mehlis,
[Kursachsen]: is 3 miles N of Suhl
city, and was said by the Grimm
FSL to be homeUC Schott
and possibly Berger families.
Said by the Phillipsfeld FSL to homeUC to a Anshuetz family; Kuhlberg said this was in Sachsen.
MehmFN:
said by the Pfeiffer FSL to be
fromUC Hannover.
Later spelled Mem?] (Mai1798:Pf92).
The Buedingen ML says this
Mehn man of Gros
Auheim married a Walther woman
of Froschhausen in 1766; Stumpp says both places are near the city of Hanau
(Mai&Marquardt:593).
MehnFN:
see Mehm.
Mehner?FN:
said by the Neidermonjou FSL to
be fromUC Sterzhausen?with
a Heinrich orphan girl in the
household. I could not find the Mehner
family in the 1798 censuses.
MehrenbergGL:
said by a Friedberg ML to be homeUC
to a Schmidt woman who married in
1766 a Laub man from Niederohm (Mai&Marquardt#313).
See Merenberg.
MehringerFN:
see Meringer.
MehrleinFN:
see Helmlein and Merlein.
MeibachFN:
said by the Preuss FSL to be fromUC
Pfafenmoisbakh/Pfaffenwiesbach(?),
Kurmainz.
MeibeierFN:
said by the Herzog FSL to be fromUC
Augsburg, Bayern.
MeichesGL:
is some14 miles WSW of Schlitz
city and was in the Felda
Jurisdiction, Hessen-Darmstadt
Duchy.
MeichesGL:
see Mengers and Schlitz.
MeidingerFN:
both the 1858 Kassel census
(#235, 236) and KS:371 said this
family came from Neipperg,
Brackenheim [Amt],
Wuerttemberg. Using
FHL#1,184,764 the
GCRA proved this origin.
See their book for more.
MeierFN:
said by the Pleve version of the
Balzer FSL to be fromUC
Schweiz.
MeierFN:
listed in the Bergdorf 1816 census (KS:659,
371) without origin. Earliest
origin proved by GCRA using FHL(1,475,250) was a fortress called Bertholdsdorf or Bertholdshoefe
on the eastern edge of Schwenningen,
with the next generation moving to Gaechingen,
Urach [Amt].
Using FHL(1054,332) they
traced the next generation to Ludwigsburg
from whence members of the family went to Russia.
All three places were in Wuerttemberg. For more
detail see the GCRA book.
MeierFN:
according to the Boaro FSL he was
the step-son of a Gottlieber man
who was fromUC Clausthal(?).
MeierFN:
said by the Boregard FSL to be
fromUC Hendendein?.
MeierFN:
said by the Brabander FSL to be
fromUC Trochtelfingen,
Fuerstenberg? [Principality],
Schwaben.
MeierFN:
said by the Dobrinka FSL to be
fromUC Darabach(?), Oesterreich.
MeierFN:
said by the Dobrinka FSL to be
fromUC Rostock,
Mecklenburg. Later spelled Maier (Mai1798:Db10,
Mv445, Dr4, Mv457, Gm37).
MeierFN:
said by the Doenhof FSL to be
fromUC Wuerttemberg
(no locality mentioned). Later
spelled Maier.
MeierFN:
said by the Dreispitz FSL to be
fromUC Foffelhof? Wittenberg. In 1798 the
family name was spelled Maier (Mai1798:Dr31).
MeierFN:
said by the Dreispitz FSL to be
fromUC Pfaffenhofen, Wuerttemberg.
MeierFN:
said by the Fischer FSL to be
fromUC Heidelberg, Kurpfalz. The family
name was spelled Maier in 1798 (Mai1798:Fs17).
MeierFN:
said by the Fischer FSL to be
fromUC Rohrbach, Kurpfalz. The family name was spelled Maier in 1798 (Mai1798:Fs9,24).
Meier{Christian}FN:
listed by the 1816 Glueckstal
census (KS:672, 676) with no
origin; but KS:371 said they came
fromUC Hindlingen, Altkirch [Amt], Elsass.
However, using FHL(1,457,485),
the GCRA
proved origin in Pfaeffingen, Tuebingen
[Amt], Wuerttemberg.
See the GCRA book for more
details.
Meier{Georg}FN:
listed by the 1816 Glueckstal
census (KS:671) with no origin,
but KS:364 (mistakenly saying he
(Maier) went to Alexanderhilf,
Odessa instead of Glueckstal)
says he came from Tuebingen, [Tuebingen
Amt], Wuerttemberg. Using FHL(1,457,393
and 1,457,388), the GCRA
proved origin in Tuebingen, Tuebingen
[Amt], Wuerttemberg.
See the GCRA book for more
details.
Meier{Jakob}FN:
died in Glueckstal and said to be
fromUC Helmlingen, Baden; but the GCRA found
no record of him in Helmlingen,
near Buehl; see their book for a
bit more detail.
Meier{Jakob,
Christian,Georg}FN: said by the 1816 Glueckstal
census (KS:672, 676, 363) to be
fromUC Hindlingen, Altkirch [Amt], Elsass.
However, using FHL(1,569,074-5,
and 1,569,082), the GCRA proved origin in Reutlingen,
Reutlingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg.
See the GCRA book for more
details.
MeierFN:
said by the Husaren FSL to be
fromUC Mannheim, [Kurpfalz].
MeierFN:
said by the Jost FSL to be fromUC
Wert?, Nuernberg.
MeierFN:
said by the Jost FSL to be a
widow, betrowthed to Herr Brenner,
living in his household.
MeierFN:
said by the Kamenka FSL to be
fromUC Frankfurt-am-Main.
Meier/Maier{J.Adam, J.Georg, J.Konrad, Jakob} FN: listed by the
1816 Kassel census (#50), the
1858 census (#150, 248), and KS:364
& 371 without origin. Using FHL#1,336,611,
1,1882,595, 1,833,189, and 1,884,075 the GCRA
proved origin in Adersbach, Sinsheim
[Amt], Baden, although the
family had moved to Ehrstaedt, Sinsheim
[Amt], Baden before
immigrating to Russia. For
frau Meier{Adam} see Ziegler. See the GCRA
book for more.
Meier{Peter}FN:
listed by the 1816 Kassel census
(#31), the 1858 census (#149) and KS:364
and 371 without origin. Using FHL#247,603,
the GCRA proved origin in Goecklingen,
Landau [Amt], Rheinpfalz.
MeierFN:
the Katharinenstadt FSL says this
orphan was living with a Spiss
family from Bayreuth.
MeierFN:
said by the Katharinenstadt FSL
to be fromUC Manzenburg(?).
MeierFN:
said by the Katharinenstadt FSL
to be fromUC Nassau-Usingen
(no locality mentioned). A Luebeck ML says this Meyer
man married in 1765 a Heil woman;
Stumpp says the marriage was in 1766 (Mai&Marquardt#21).
Later spelled Maier (Mai1798:Ka6).
MeierFN:
said by the Katharinenstadt FSL
to be fromUC Worms.
MeierFN:
said by the Kautz FSL to be fromUC
Hasslock/Hassloch, Kurpfalz.
MeierFN:
said by the Krasnoyar FSL to be
fromUC Laubach. Also
spelled Maier.
MeierFN:
said by the Krasnoyar FSL to be
fromUC Nidda, Darmstadt.
Also spelled Maier.
MeierFN:
said by the Louis FSL to be fromUC
Bitsch, Lothringen. In 1798 the
family name was sometimes spelled Maier
(Mai1798:Ls7).
MeierFN:
said by the Mariental FSL to be
fromUC Hohenburg.
The name was later spelled Maier
and his wife's maiden name was given as Koernmeier
(Mai1798:Mt53).
MeierFN:
said by the Mariental FSL to be
fromUC Straubing, Bayern.
The family name was later spelled Maier
(Mai1798:Mt70).
MeierFN:
said by the Mueller FSL to be
fromUC Wall.
The Kuhlberg list gives the state as Isenburg.
MeierFN{Gottfried}:
said (no locality mentioned) by the Neidermonjou
FSL to be fromUC [Kur-]Sachsen.
MeierFN{Kaspar}:
said by the Neidermonjou FSL to
be fromUC Orbach.
MaierFN{Katharina}:
said by the1798 Neidermonjou
census to be the maiden name of frau Beitnitz.
MeierFN{Michael}:
said by the Neidermonjou FSL to
be fromUC Nuernberg.
Meier{Johannes}FN:
said by the 1816 Neudorf census
(#112) to have come fromUC Walddorf,
Tuebingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg. Also
spelled Maier. See the GCRA
book for a bit more.
Meier{Maria}:
listed in the 1816 Neudorf census
(#70) along with her widowed, remarried mother, Eva (Walter)
(Meier)Lippert. The GCRA says
the death reports of both women indicate birth in an unidentified place
called Roth, Wuerttemberg. See the GCRA
book under all three family names for more.
MeierFN:
said by the Paulskaya FSL to be
fromUC Binningen?.
MeierFN:
said by the Paulskaya FSL to be
fromUC Dansenberg?, Pflaz.
MeierFN:
said by the Paulskaya FSL to be
fromUC Grossen Buseck.
MeierFN:
said by the Paulskaya FSL to be
fromUC Wien.
MeierFN:
said by the Preuss FSL to be fromUC
Winzenheim, Alsace.
Also spelled Maier.
MeierFN:
said by the Rothammel FSL to be
fromUC Strassburg, Alsace.
MeierFN:
also see Maier, Mayer, and Meyer.
MeierhoeferVV:
an alternate name for GalkaVV.
MeiermannFN:
said by the Belowescher Kolonien
FSL to be fromUC the Pfalz
(no locality mentioned).
MeigFN:
see Mauch.
Meila(?)GL:
an unidentified place said by the Kraft
FSL to be homeUC to a Keifer
family.
MeilbergGL:
an unidentified place said by the Bettinger
FSL to be homeUC to a Hildebrandt
and perhaps a Lehmann family.
MeileFN:
see Maeule.
MeilingGL:
an unidentified place said by the Paulskaya
FSL to be homeUC to a Fros?
family. There are two very small
places of this name in Bavaria.
MeilingerFN:
said by the Preuss FSL to be fromUC
Olingen, Nassau.
Miemer
FN: said by the Neidermonjou
FSL to be an orphan girl in the Jung
household.
MeimersGL,
Sachsen: an unidentified place said by the Bauer
FSL to be homeUC to a Abel?
family. There is a Meimers, Thueringen, some 19 miles SW of Gotha.
MeimersdorfGL:
is the name of the south suburban area of Kiel,
and said by the Holstein FSL to
be homeUC to a Koeln
family.
MeinFN:
see Mai.
Meinetschlag(?):
an unidentified place said by the Preuss
FSL to be home to an Turis?
family. This susrely was the
town that is now called Malonty in the Czech Republic.
MeingottFN:
said by the 1798 Boregard census
to be the maiden name of frau Ockel.
MeinhardFN:
said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC
Beseke(?).
See Mai1798: Mn09, Mn27.
MeinhardVV
(aka Unterwalden): a Lutheran
colony founded in 1767 on the eastern side of the Volga river not far from Luzern.
To the best of my knowledge no copy of its First Settlers’ List has
been found and published. Anyone
learning of such a document, please let us know immediately.
MeinhartFN:
an orphan boy listed by the Boregard
FSL in the Mueller{Just}
household.
MeinickeFN:
said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC
Zuchau.
Spelled Meinicke in 1798
and his wife's maiden name is given as Geier
(Mai1798: Bx06, 55).
MeiningenGL:
is in Thueringin some 31 E of Fulda
Hessen and said by the Frank
FSL to be in the state of Sachsen
and homeUC to a Hock family.
MeiningerFN:
said by the Messer FSL to be fromUC
Isenburg (no locality mentioned),
and the maiden name of one of the two frau Meininger is given as Zeller
and his mother-in-law’s name is also given as Zeller.
An orphan Daut? Was living with another Meininger household.
Meinzing(?)GL:
an unidentified place said by the Holstein
FSL to be homeUC to a Pfeiler
family.
The only Meinzing I can find is in Bavaria some 33 miles NE of
Regensberg.
MeisFN:
said by the Boregard FSL to be
fromUC Steinig?.
Kuhlberg said this was in Fulda.
Meisburg: see Meisenburg.
MeischFN:
according to the Buedingen ML a Meisch woman, no origin given, married a Ross man in 1766; by 1767 the couple was in Stahl-am-Karaman (Mai&Marquardt#426).
Meisdorf,
[Magdeburg Duchy], Preussen:
is 16 miles SW of Halberstadt city, and said by the Merkel FSL to be homeUC to an Elzow family.
Meisenburg?GL,
[Kur-]Sachsen: said by the Jost
FSL to be homeUC to a Lorenz
family. This might be Meisburg,
some 1.5 miles SW of Hettstedt.
Meisendorf?,
Bamberg [Bishopric]: an
unidentified place said by the Ober-Monjou
FSL to be homeUC to a Spister/Speister
family and possibly to their Spindt
step-children.
MeisenheimGL:
until 1797 this was a Kreis or district administrative center for the Pfalz-Zweibruechen Duchy.
MeisenheimGL,
Kreuznach [Oberamt], Rheinpfalz: is
some 12 miles SW of Bad Kreuznach
city and 20 miles W of Alzey
city. It was also a District
administrative center. It was governed by the Pfalz-Zweibruecken Principality until 1795, then by France
until 1816, and then Bavaria
until WWII. It was proven
by the GCRA as home to the Aman/Amann{Philipp} family that went to Kassel, and as home
to the Feigert/Feikert/Feukert family that settled in Neudorf.
MeisenheimGL,
Kurpfalz: said by the Bauer
FSL to be homeUC to Ranert
and Reichel families. The
contemporary Pastor Seyffarth makes it clear that this actually is
Mettenheim, Wartenberg (Mai&Marquardt#1238,
1245, 1247).
Meisenheim
[Amt]GL, Rheinpfalz:
is some 20 miles W of Alzey city,
some 12 miles SW of Bad Kreutznach,
and was a District administrative center.
MeisenheimGL,
Wittenberg: said by the Bauer
FSL to be homeUC to Fischer
and Reichel families. The
contemporary Pastor Seyffarth makes it clear that this actually is
Mettenheim, Wartenberg (Mai&Marquardt#1238,
1245, 1247).
MeisenheimGL,
[Pfalz-]Zweibruecken [Duchy]: is
some 35 miles NE of Zweibruecken
city, and said by the Jost FSL to
be homeUC to a Schledewitr
family. Said by the Louis FSL to
be homeUC to Eckhard
and Faupel families as well as
frau Kumpallo and, possibly, her Schaefer
son.
MeisenheimGL,
[Pfalz-Zweibruecken Duchy], Kurpfalz:
said by the Degott FSL to be homeUC
to a Muelberger{Casimir} family.
Same place as the previous entry
MeiserFN:
said by the Brabander FSL to be
fromUC Wintelz?, Nassau. Spelled Messler?
in 1790 (Mai1798:Mv354).
MeiserlingFN:
said by the Messer FSL to be fromUC
Kurpfalz (no locality mentioned)
and his wife’s maiden name is given as Schulz.
Meisinger
FN: said by the Messer 1798
census to be the maiden name of frau Geiss
of Messer (Mai1798:Ms69).
MeisingerFN:
said by the Messer FSL to be a
step-son living in one of the two Lang
households.
MeisingerFN:
also see Meissinger.
MeisnerFN:
said by the Jost FSL to be fromUC
Lebbin, Brandenburg.
MeisnerFN:
said by the Kano FSL to be fromUC
Halle.
MeisnerFN:
said by the Lauwe FSL to be fromUC
Bayreuth (no locality mentioned).
MeissingerFN:
said by the Balzer FSL to be fromUC
Isenburg.
Bonner
proved his parents, including his Hart/Hardt
mother, were baptized in Aulendiebach,
Isenburg[-Buedingen County]. Also
spelled Meisinger.
MeisingerFN:
aka frau Kaufmann{Johannes}lived
in Schilling (Mai1798:Sg22); Bonner
proved that she was baptized a Meissinger
in Aulendiebach, Isenburg[-Buedingen County].
MeisterlingFN:
said by the Messer 1798 census to
be the maiden name of one of the frau Manweiler
(Mai1798:Ms54), as well as of
frau Schneider (Mai1798:Ms46).
Mekerkingen?GL,
Wittenberg (mistake for Wuerttemberg):
said by the Lauwe FSL to be homeUC
to a Mekler family.
I believe this was Maegerkingen, Wuerttemberg Duchy … rak.
MeklerFN:
said by the Lauwe FSL to be fromUC
Mekerkingen?, Wittenberg. I could not
find this family in the 1798 censuses.
Mekmal?GL:
an unidentified place said by the Neidermonjou
FSL to be homeUC to an Ephardt?
widower.
MelcherFN:
see Melkhert.
MelchiorFN:
said by the Belowescher Kolonien
FSL to be fromUC Polen (no
locality mentioned).
MelchiorFN:
this family name was found recorded in Schotten
parish records for many generations prior to 1767; see Flegel trip.
MelchiorFN:
see Kaes.
Melem(?)GL,
Kelheim: an unidentified place
said by the Preuss FSL to be home
to Engelbert families.
There is a Mueellem, North Rhine-Westphalia, some 40 miles NW of Cologne.
MelkhertFN:
said by the Walter FSL to be fromUC
Verg, Freie Adelprovinz der alten Ritter.
Later spelled Melcher.
MellFN:
said by the Kukkus FSL to be fromUC
Boddin, Brandenburg.
MellerFN:
see Miller.
MellingerFN:
said by the Kamenka FSL to be
fromUC Sierck/Sirsk(?), Frankreich.
Mellinghausen:
said by the Phillipsfeld FSL to
homeUC to a Hilgenberg/Hildenberg family. This
probably was in Hoya County, Kurbraunsweig
26 miles SSE of Bremen city centre.
MelsungenGL,
Hessen: 13 miles SSE of Kassel city.
Meltendorf(?)GL:an
unidentified place said by the Katharinenstadt
FSL to be homeUC to a Sachse
family. A Rosslau ML says this man married in 1765 a Knittel woman (Mai&Marquardt#190).
This may be the Meltendorf that is some 9 miles E of Wittenberg,
Sachsen-Anhalt.
MelzerFN:
said by the Holstein FSL to be
fromUC Kretz, Sachsen.
Mem?FN:
see Mehm.
Memel,
[Ost]Preussen: nka
Klaipeda, Lithuania, was 12 miles
SSW of Crottingen city, and said
by the Husaren FSL to be homeUC
to a Noriheim family.
Memelsdorf(?)GL,
Holstein: said by the Holstein
FSL to be homeUC to Schmiese
and Schwin families. Dona
Reeves-Marquardt proved that this was Meggerdorf,
Friedrichsholm colony.
MemmingenGS,
[Bayern]: was in the 1760s an
independent city-state, i.e. a free imperial city.
It now is in Bavaria, is some 30 miles SE of Ulm city, and is said by the Herzog
FSL to be homeUC to a Glaser
and probably a Wagner family.
Said by the Volmer FSL to be home to a Wiessner
family.
MendtGL:
an unidentified place said by the Kano
FSL to be homeUC to a Mueller{Adam}
family. This may have been in Kurkoeln
some 13 miles ESE of Bonn city.
MeneFN:
said by the Paulskaya FSL to be
fromUC Dielmel?, Paderborn. In 1798 the
family name was spelled Menet and
the wife’s maiden name was given as Messin
(Mai1798:Nb16).
MenerFN:
said by the Kano FSL to be two
orphans in the Hauer household.
I could not find the Meners in the 1798 Volga censuses.
Mener?FN:
said by the Paulskaya FSL to be
fromUC Bamberg (no
locality mentioned). I could not
find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.
MenetFN:
see Mene.
MengFN:
said by the 1798 Galka census to
be the maiden name of frau Frank{J.Wilhelm}(Mai1798:Gk10).
MengFN:
said by the Messer FSL to be fromUC
Kurpfalz (no locality mentioned).
MengFN:
also see Ming.
Mengers(?)GL:
said by the Boaro FSL to be homeUC
to a Bindewald family.
The Schlitz ML says this
is Meiches.
Menges?FN:
said by the Boregard FSL to be
fromUC Scherstong?.
I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.
MengesFN:
said by the Dehler FSL to be fromUC
Sachsenhausen, [Kur-]Trier.
For 1793 see 1798Mai:Mv380.
MennikeFN:
said by the Boregard FSL to be
fromUC Weissbach. I
could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.
Menning,
[Kur-]Bayern: is 7 miles E
of Ingolstadt and was said by the
Dehler FSL to be homeUC
to a Lattenbach family.
MenoholtzGL:
see Isenburg-Meerholz?
MensingFN:
two families said by the Koehler
FSL to be fromUC Fulda
(no locality given), and one frau’s maiden name was given as Hahn
while the other’s was Gassner
(no origin given for either). ). The
family name was spelled Hassenhauer in
1798 (Mai1798:Kl35,65).
MensingFN:
said by the Pfeiffer FSL to be
fromUC Hilders.
Later spelled Mensinger (Mai1798:Pf41).
MensingerFN:
see Mensing.
Menualt?GL:
an unidentified place said by the Neidermonjou
FSL to be homeUC to a Karera?
family.
MenzelFN:
this woman was said by a Friedberg
ML to be fromUC Grossen
Buseck and to have married in 1766 a Fruend
man (Mai&Marquardt:322).
The man was in Paulskaya by 1768 apparently with a new wife.
MenzingenGL,
Mentzingen Barony: is some 9
miles SW of Sinsheim city. Arliss
has found some evidence that the Clauser
family which settled first in Dobrinka
may have come from here having earlier come from Switzerland. Said by the
Galka FSL to be homeUC
to a Tefer? family.
Menzingen,
Bruchsal [Amt], Baden:
said by both the 1858 Kassel
census (#244) and KS:340 to be
originUC to Kraemer{Johann}
who was born in Kassel.
This is the same place as the previous entry, but several decades
later.
MeolderFN:
said by the Leitsinger FSL to be
fromUC Aschalwitz?.
I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.
Merck
FN: see Merk.
MerckleFN:
see Amann.
Merdershein?GL:
an unidentified place said by the Ober-Monjou
FSL to be homeUC to a Wulf57
Kuhlberg said this was in Bayreuth.
I could find no such or similar place name in lands that had belonged
to the Bayreuth Margraviate.
MerenbergGL,
Nassau-Weilburg: is some 14 miles
WSW of Wetzler city and said both
by the Laub FSL and by a Friedberg
ML (spelled Mehrenberg) to be
homeUC to a Deis
family.
MergburgGL,
Hessen: an unidentified place said by the Katharinenstadt
FSL to be homeUC to a Koehler
family.
Mergelz?GL,
Frankreich: an unidentified place
said by the Mariental FSL to be
homeUC to a Leber
family.
MergenthalGS:
an unidentified country mentioned by Kuhlberg in relation to Nervgenstal and the Model
family.
MergentheimGL,
[Teutonic Order]: said by the Pfeiffer
FSL to be homeUC to an
Erlichhaeuser family. It is
now Bad Mergentheim some 22 miles SSW of Wuerzburg city and was in the 1760s the seat of the farflung state
controled by the Teutonic Order.
Merhardt
FN: said by the Phillipsfeld
FSL to be fromUC Friedewald,
[Hessen-Kassel Landgraviate].
Spelled Marquardt in 1786
(Mai1798:Mv2304).
Merier
FN: see Kraemer of Orlovskaya.
Merine?FN:
said by the Holstein FSL to be
fromUC Dergin(?).
MeringerFN:
said by the Brabander FSL to be
fromUC Estrig?, Kurmainz. Spelled
Mehringer in 1798 (Mai1798:Bn77).
MerkFN:
said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC
Laas, Sachsen.
Spelled Maerker in 1798 (Mai1798:
Bx02, 09).
MerkFN:
said by the Jost FSL to be fromUC
Muensingen, Schwaben. I could not
find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.
MerkFN:
said by the Laub FSL to be fromUC
Fischbach, Falkenstein. In 1798
spelled Moerck and Merck (Mai1798:Lb6,
Jo35).
MerkelFN:
said by the Stumpp version of the Balzer
FSL to be fromUC Kurpfalz and
said by the Pleve version of the
Balzer FSL to be fromUC Schweiz.
Merkel
FN: said by the Bergdorf
1816 census (KS:661, 372) to have
been either fromUC Rauental,
Rastatt [Amt], Baden
or fromUC Grosssachsen,
Mannheim [Amt], Baden.
However, the GCRA
using FHL(193,873) has proven their origin to be Kleinniedesheim,
Worms [Amt], Pfalz; and they
proved using FHL(766,099, 905,257
and 905,268) that the family lived in several places in Galicia (including: Deutschbach
(Reichau parish), Heinrichsdorf,
Ostrowiec, and Sabawa of Stojanow
(Catholic) parish, near Josefow(aka Josephsberg)), as well as Burtneck
and Ranzen,
near Riga, Latvia, on their way to Russia.
This was an extended family serveral of whom moved from Galicia
to Bergdorf at different times;
see the GCRA book for much
detail. Also spelled Merkels and Merckle.
Merkel?
FN: said (no locality mentioned) by the Boregard
FSL to be fromUC Rot
with a Schulz stepson living in
the household. I could not find
th Merkel family in the 1798
Volga censuses.
MerkelFN:
said by the Goebel FSL to be fromUC
Schlierbach.
MerkelFN:
this stepson of Stuckart by his first wife is said by the Kromm version of
the Jagodnaja Poljana FSL to be fromUC Bobenhausen, Hanau
(pp.29, 34).
MerkelFN:
said by the Merkel FSL to be fromUC
Hamburg.
MerkelFN{Anna
Katarina} FN: said (no locality mentioned) by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC [Hessen-]Darmstadt.
Merkel
FN{Katarina}: said (no locality mentioned) by the Neidermonjou
FSL to be fromUC Hamburg.
MerkelFN:
said by the Paulskaya FSL to be
fromUC Romrod?.
The 1798 Paulskaya census
said his wife’s maiden name was Tautrich
(Mai1798:Pl01).
MerkelVV (aka Makarovka, and Makarowkaka)
was a Lutheran German village on the western side of the Volga.
Its FSL is published in Pleve, The German Colonies …,
pp.421-430. According to that,
the first settlers were from the following places with the family names
shown here in parens:
from Alsace:
(Rohlmann);
from Alstein,
Pomerania: (Specht);
from Alteno/Altenau(?):
(Brigmann);
from Berlin,
Prussia: (Wegelin);
from Brandenburg:
(Lohmann);
from Copenhagen,
Denmark: (Elbach);
from Debertsin(?),
Austria: (Grason?);
from Dresden,
Saxony: (Margheim);
from Finland:
(Olofsen);
from Flensburg,
Holstein: (Zeiser);
from Galborsht(?),
Prussia: (Foerster);
from Gildeseer(?):
(Gieseke);
from Hamburg:
(Brigann, Fokht/Vogt, Hasselbach, Kastens, Lampe, Merkel, Rik?,
Schildt, Schumacher);
from Hannover:
(Litseu?);
from Kiel,
Holstein: (Flohr);
from Kyusen(?):
(Metz);
from Leipsig,
Saxony: (Just);
from Litikh/Littich(?),
Saxony: (Bese/Boese?);
from Lton(?):
(Bresiger?);
from Lutenburg,
Holstein: (Walter);
from Lysanderhausen,
Saxony: (Neumann);
from Magdeburg,
Prussia: (Beckmann, Frank, Redlov?);
from Mecklenburg:
(VonHolstein);
from Neuburg,
Wuerttemberg: (Adam);
from Poland:
(Hoffmann);
from Riga,
Lifland: (Miller);
from Saxony:
(Getse/Goetz?);
from Schlyagenzet(?),
Denmark: (Brant/Brandt)
from Sester,
Holstein: (Sontau);
from Stuttgart,
Wuerttemberg: (Siegfried);
from Temppi(?),
Prussia: (Krieger);
from Tilsit,
Prussia: (Artzer);
from Ulm;
(Gel?);
from Vienna,
Austria: (Fortner);
from Vliograd(?),
Hamburg: (Bruns);
from Wenger,
Prussia: (Wegelin);
from Worms,
Kurpfalz: (Becker);
from Zelelfeld(?),
Braunschweig: (Schredo?).
MerkerFN:
said by the Graf FSL to be fromUC
Wuerzburg (no locality
mentioned). Later spelled Maerker (Mai1798:Gf16).
Merkewitz, Prussia: an unidentified place which the GCRA found associated with a Heine
family in 1749.
MerlauGL, [Hessen-Darmstadt]: is
some 15 miles ENE of Giessen
city. Said by the Buedingen ML to be homeUC to a Gruen woman who married a Wurm
man in 1766; by 1767 this couple was in Grimm
(Mai&Marquard#501).
Said by the Kraft FSL to be homeUC to a Becher family.
Merlein?FN:
said by the Leitsinger FSL to be
fromUC Reuth, Bamberg [Bishopric].
Spelled Mehrlein in 1798 (Mai1798:Hz38,
Sm8).
MermisFN:
see Marmis.
MerschFN:
said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC
Isenburg (no locality mentioned).
I cannot find them in the index to the 1798 censuses.
MerscheburgFN:
see Moeserburg.
MersfeldGL,
Kurpfalz: an unidentified place said by the Preuss
FSL to be home to an Dekhel?
family. This probably is Moersfeld, Rhineland-Palatinate,
some 22 miles NNE of Kaiserslautern.
MertenGL:
see Mirten.
MertesFN:
see Martis.
MertzFN:
said by the Brabander FSL to be
fromUC Koenigshofen, Nassau.
MertzFN:
said by the Leichtling FSL to be
fromUC Regensburg (no
locality mentioned).
MertzFN:
this family name was found recorded in Schotten
parish records for many generations prior to 1767; see Flegel trip.
MertzFN:
also see Maerz, Martis, Merz or Metz.
MerzFN:
listed by the 1816 Glueckstal
census (KS:676, 373) as coming by way of Torschau, Hungary. Using FHL(717,097,
and 717,055), the GCRA
proved they did not come through Hungary, but came directly from Hunspach,
Sulz [Amt], Elsass.
See the GCRA book for more
details. Also spelled Maerz.
MerzFN:
according to the Grimm FSL a
single Merz young man (no origin indicated) was living with a Heppel
family from Darmstadt (no
locality indicated). He is
called brother to the head of the household … might be brother to the
wife? Later spelled Mertz.
MerzFN:
said by the Neidermonjou FSL to
be fromUC Bern?.
MerzFN:
also see Werz.
MerzhausenGL:
an unidentified place said by the Neidermonjou
FSL to be homeUC to a
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